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According to John Allegro, of Dead Sea Scrolls fame (among other more recent scholars), he looked like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria h
by joseph8th 8y ago
According to John Allegro, of Dead Sea Scrolls fame (among other more recent scholars), he looked like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
- freyir 8y agoFrom Wikipedia: Allegro argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient "sex-and-mushroom" cult. Critical reaction was swift and harsh: fourteen British scholars (including Allegro's mentor at Oxford, Godfrey Driver) denounced it. Sidnie White Crawford wrote of the publication of Sacred Mushroom, "Rightly or wrongly, Allegro would never be taken seriously as a scholar again."
- joseph8th 8y agoHeh. Not saying Allegro was right, but it's worth noting that his critics were not just scholars of religion, but religious. He insulted their deity. As is usually the case with religious scholarship, the academics aren't exactly unbiased.
- kmlx 8y agomuch more probable than what various religions tell us.